TESTIMONIALS & CASE STUDY
Integrative agriculture course
Location: Fachongle Isaf, Pembrokeshire, SA42 0QR, Wales
Dates: August 14th, 15th and 16th
Duration: 3 days (100% practical)
Instructors (www.ecolucion.es): Lázaro Muñoz & Alberto San Andrés
Maximum number of attendees: 20
Schedule:
- Morning: 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM
- Lunch with veggie option available
- Afternoon: 2:30 PM – 6:00 PM
Whatsapp group: if you want to join our community of farmers, thinkers and pioneers exploring a new path, please follow this link
Course objective
Do you battle slugs every year?
Does weeding creeping buttercup drive you mad?
Frustrated that your crops never reach their full potential?
We’re offering a hands-on course where we’ll learn how to interpret the messages the land is sending us: whether it’s through pests, weeds or the condition of the crops themselves.
We will teach you a method that uses signalling to help plants respond to pests, to improve soil microorganism.
In our hands-on training, you’ll learn how to:
✔ Understand what your soil and crops are telling you
✔ Use biochemistry, native microbiology, and metabolic signals to strengthen your crops
✔ Trigger natural plant responses instead of reacting with more inputs
✔ Cut chemical inputs without sacrificing yield
We don’t sell recipes. We teach you how to create your own solutions using the tools you already have in your kitchen or on your farm.
If you want to stop depending on products and start becoming the expert your crops need — this is for you.
Beyond Organic Farming is an intensive 3-day course designed to help you unlock the power of soil biology and microbial life to improve your crop health and resilience—without relying on external inputs. You’ll learn how to harness biodiversity, use local resources, and create the right conditions to stimulate biological activity and restore soil vitality naturally.
In our 3-day practical course, participants learn
- what to do (and how) in the case of common problems (like aphids, mildew, poor root development…)
- how to formulate your own natural extracts from local plants to nourish your soil and strengthen your crops.
- how to create effective specific solutions using local resources and biological principles
We don’t promise magic, but we do teach a methodology that helps you unlock solutions from what you already have: in your soil, in your kitchen (tools) and in your local biodiversity.
August 14: Process-based agriculture and local resource collection
Morning (9:00 AM – 1:00 PM) – Fundamentals and resource search
- Input dependency vs. process-based agriculture: how to produce without relying on external products.
- Connection and biodiversity in agriculture.
- Field Exploration: going out to identify useful local resources.
- Collection of native microbiology and materials for preparations.
- Practical Session:
Identifying bioactive arable plants.
Soil assessment and selection of samples for microbiological analysis.
Methods for collecting and preserving beneficial microorganisms.
Afternoon (2:30 PM – 6:00 PM) – Local and natural preparations and element recombination
- How to make living Bionosodes: culturing native microorganisms in liquid solutions.
- Preparation of Mother Tinctures: Extracting secondary metabolites from plants.
- Making the “witch’s broth”:
🔹 Combination of plant and seed extracts to create cocktails of amino acids, minerals, and secondary metabolites.
🔹 Explanation of molecular recombination processes.
🔹 Microbial growth curves: how microorganisms evolve based on their medium and conditions.
🔹 Dynamization and modification of the medium: how to change outcomes by adjusting temperature, oxygenation, light, and other factors.
Hands-on Experiments:
Modifying a bionosode’s thermal resistance using heat (e.g., thermal shock proteins to increase plant resistance to heat and radiation).
Field test with local plants: for example, by observing color changes in a bionosode when exposed to light.
August 15: Biofertilizer production and pest control
Morning (9:00 AM – 1:00 PM) – Fermentations and microorganisms
- Producing native microorganisms: Bacillus, Pseudomonas and Lactic Acid Bacteria.
- How to use and make aerobic and anaerobic compost tea to signal your crops/garden the need to draw on microorganisms to feed and defend or adapt themselves.
- Using microorganisms to regenerate soils and unlock nutrients: heavy, waterlogged and compacted soils.
- Strategic application of biofertilizers in soils with toxicity issues.
Practical Session:
Preparing an activated microbiological broth.
Using fermented extracts for plant nutrition and crop protection.
Applying biofertilizers to correct calcium and magnesium deficiencies.
Afternoon (2:30 PM – 6:00 PM) – Pest and Disease Control
- Managing pests without agrochemicals: controlling slugs, aphids, apple canker, downy mildew, black rot and red spider mite.
- How to prepare biofungicides with tannins, polysaccharides, and microorganisms.
- Using botanical bioinsecticides: essential oils and emulsions.
- Restoring functional biodiversity for natural pest control.
Practical Session:
Application of biopesticides on sensitive crops.
Introducing microorganisms and plants that enhance ecological balance.
August 16: Application strategies and protocol design
Morning (9:00 AM – 1:00 PM) – Practical applications in the field
- How to design an application plan based on soil and climate needs.
- Efficiency tests in crops: visual evaluation and rapid analysis of plant responses.
- Optimizing protocols to improve crop resilience.
Practical Session:
Applying natural preparations to soil and foliage.
Introducing biological control strategies on the farm.
Identifying nutrient deficiencies and correcting them with biofertilizers.
Afternoon (2:30 PM – 6:00 PM) – Closing and Action Plan
- How to scale up remedies production on your farm.
- Common mistakes and how to avoid them.
- Course closure and networking among participants.
- Rabbit hole: addressing un-answered questions
Who is this course for?
Farmers and technicians who want to learn how to produce their own inputs.
Producers seeking independence from the agrochemical industry.
Consultants and trainers in conventional, natural, organic, regenerative, agroforestry and permaculture agriculture.
People passionate about working with nature by boosting biodiversity to enhance their farms’ natural processes.
What will you learn?
How to farm 100% organically: make your own natural fertilizers and pest control —using what grows around you.
How to grow healthy crops, boost your harvests and build living soil—using only local resources.
How to become a self-reliant farmer: reduce dependency and turn local resources into powerful farming tools.
How to manipulate natural preparations to trigger specific crop responses—naturally and precisely
This course is 100% practical. You will learn by DOING 🚀
PRICE:
£240 — Accessible Price. This price is for you if:
- You often struggle to meet basic needs like food, housing, or transportation.
- You have little or no savings, and a higher price would prevent you from participating.
£300 — Fair Price. This price is for you if:
- You can cover your basic needs but with effort or monthly trade-offs.
- You have limited savings and sometimes delay non-essential purchases.
£420 — Supporter Price. This price is for you if:
- You comfortably meet your needs and have stable income and savings.
- You want to help make this offering accessible to others with fewer resources.
Lunch is £9 – veggie option available!
All sliding-scale donations will go toward supporting the community
See you in the field from August 14 to 16!
👉 Only 20 spots available and they’ll go fast — reserve yours now! or write me at info@elholon.com